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May 7, 2024 — Today OpenMedia and more than 20 civil society groups and legal experts delivered an open letter to Minister of Justice Arif Virani, urging the government to separate controversial Parts ...
This article by our Marianela Ramos Capelo was originally published by Rabble magazine. While copyright may sound like a stale and legalese-filled concept, copyright and intellectual property issues ...
Huge public outcry succeeds in forcing FCC to back away from officially endorsing Big Telecom’s Slow Lane plan The U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced this morning that it will push ahead ...
Together with Ekō, the OpenMedia community is calling out Canada’s monopolies.
Jenna is the Senior Campaigner at OpenMedia, an internet governance enthusiast and a public policy nerd. Her interests intersect the technicality of internet technology and public participation in ...
It’s been called the “Most dangerous Canadian Internet bill you’ve never heard of”. But some folk will tell you it’s just a common sense approach to protecting kids — and who could say no to that! So ...
An alarming number of privacy violations are coming from just one sector of our digital economy. Enabled and empowered by weak privacy laws, these organizations are taking advantage of the Internet by ...
When you buy a smartphone or a laptop, that device should be completely yours; you ought to be able to do what you want with it. If you drop your phone off the fifth floor, and the screen breaks, you ...
Canada’s Internet status quo is a policy disaster. Basic, long overdue regulations to protect our online privacy and online safety keep failing in a distracted and disinterested Parliament. Real ...
Our government just unveiled a cynical plan to make Canada’s Internet one of the most censored and surveilled in the democratic world. It’s a classic bait and switch; using our real frustration with ...
It’s about to be blocked on several major online platforms. Canadian Internet users will not be able to share links to Canadian news outlet websites on Instagram or Facebook, or see links to their ...